Quotes by Authors

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. C. S. Lewis

Joy Sometimes Pleasures Wonder Substitutes Whether

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.' C. S. Lewis

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. C. S. Lewis

Somewhere Everything Possible Exception Begins

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. Charles Bukowski

Genius Idiot Everybody Born Almost Buried

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar. Charles Bukowski

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' Christopher Hitchens

Me Cosmos Bothers Return Dumb Question Reply Barely Why Why Not

Act like you expect to get into the end zone. Christopher Morley

You Like End Expect Get Act Zone

You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it's going to come back to you. Clemantine Wamariya

Life You Selfish Unkind Back Come Going Being Being Selfish Keep

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. Corrie Ten Boom

Enemy Victory First Way Recognize Step First Step

As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts. Debbie Ford

You Grief Will Situation Every Say Gifts Unattended Bearing Disappointments Goodbye Discover Lingering Person Painful Incident

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. Douglas Coupland

You Creativity Sexual Fake Competence

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Good Valuable Advice Mistakes Saved Some Glad Had Attention Most Am Been Little Little Attention Might Good Advice Paid

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. Edward Abbey

Science Experience Thought Logic California Verified Then Reason

Grown men do not need leaders. Edward Abbey

Men Leaders Grown Grown Men Need

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. Edwin Louis Cole

God Knowledge Word Temptation Bulwark Persecution Accusation Deception Against Even

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Day Morning Soul Dark Three Always Real After Night